Rubber foot-mat.



No. 665,370. Patented lan. I, |90I. L. D. PARKER. RUBBER Fo'oT MAT.

(Application led Oct. 16, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS D. PARKER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

RUBBER FOOT-MAT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 665,370, dated January 1, 1901.

Application filed October 16 1900. Serial No. 33,231. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS D. PARKER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented'a certain new and useful Improvement in Rubber Foot-Mats, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a top or plan View of a corner of a foot-mat embodying the said improvement. Fig. 2 is a View of the part that is shown in Fig. 1 in vertical section on the plane denoted by the dotted line x. Fig. 3 is a top view of the metallic plate and scraper, hereinafter referred to.

The object of the improvement is the production of a rubber foot-mat provided with a metallic scraper.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a denotes a foot-mat, of rubber or one of its compounds. It bears on its surface and integral therewith the corrugations a.' in diamond form, which serve as Scrapers The letter b denotes a metallic plate which is embedded in the body of the mat a in the process of manufacture, it being perforated (see Fig. 3) to make the grasp of the rubber upon the metallic plate a secure one. From the metallic plate b rises a metallic scraper b'. At each side of that metallic scraper there is a space of the upper surface of the rubber mat left free of the rubber corrugations, an arrangement which gives the metallic scraper more effective action and also serves as a pocket to catch the scrapings.

I claim as my improvement- A corrugated rubber foot-mat having embedded therein a metallic plate from which a metallic scraper rises above the surface of the rubber foot mat and provided with a pocket in the mat and about the metallic footscraper, all substantially as described and for the purposes set forth.

LEWIS D. PARKER.

Witnesses:

A. E. OORBETT, J. C. WILSON. 

